Temporal summaries : supporting temporal categorical searching, aggregation and comparison

When analyzing thousands of event histories, analysts often want to see the events as an aggregate to detect insights and generate new hypotheses about the data. An analysis tool must emphasize both the prevalence and the temporal ordering of these events. Additionally, the analysis tool must also s...

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Veröffentlicht in:IEEE transactions on visualization and computer graphics. - 1996. - 15(2009), 6 vom: 20. Nov., Seite 1049-56
1. Verfasser: Wang, Taowei David (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Plaisant, Catherine, Shneiderman, Ben, Spring, Neil, Roseman, David, Marchand, Greg, Mukherjee, Vikramjit, Smith, Mark
Format: Online-Aufsatz
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 2009
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:IEEE transactions on visualization and computer graphics
Schlagworte:Journal Article Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't Heparin 9005-49-6
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Zusammenfassung:When analyzing thousands of event histories, analysts often want to see the events as an aggregate to detect insights and generate new hypotheses about the data. An analysis tool must emphasize both the prevalence and the temporal ordering of these events. Additionally, the analysis tool must also support flexible comparisons to allow analysts to gather visual evidence. In a previous work, we introduced align, rank, and filter (ARF) to accentuate temporal ordering. In this paper, we present temporal summaries, an interactive visualization technique that highlights the prevalence of event occurrences. Temporal summaries dynamically aggregate events in multiple granularities (year, month, week, day, hour, etc.) for the purpose of spotting trends over time and comparing several groups of records. They provide affordances for analysts to perform temporal range filters. We demonstrate the applicability of this approach in two extensive case studies with analysts who applied temporal summaries to search, filter, and look for patterns in electronic health records and academic records
Beschreibung:Date Completed 13.01.2010
Date Revised 20.10.2021
published: Print
Citation Status MEDLINE
ISSN:1941-0506
DOI:10.1109/TVCG.2009.187